Tag: Gothic
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SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes it seemed like there was a creature inside her, lurking, trying to bust through her bones, a demented birth. Mam would be a pile of ... -
LUCKENBOOTH by Jenni Fagan (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gothic Walk on the Wild Side In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was home to the Scottish Enlightenment – the rule of reason, humanism, progress – ... -
FANTASTIC TALES by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, translated by Lawrence Venuti (BOOK REVIEW)
“We cannot fail to recognize that in the spiritual world as in its physical counterpart, everything that happens, happens and changes through certain laws of influence ... -
The Girl, the House and the Secrets: Five Gothic Novels and A Movie
So, what is with the girl and the old house? During the 19th Century, Romanticism saw the past as a source of inspiration. Gazing upon ruins ... -
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different ...
